My Crazy Bad Luck

TJ often makes fun of me for having bad luck. I buy a new sink for the bathroom at the store and when I open the box at home it's broken. I buy a new light and try to install it and discover it's missing an essential piece. He goes out of town for work, and the morning he flies out my car won't start. The list is endless.

So one of my many hobbies is cross-stitching. An art that I learned as a child from my grandmother and my aunt. Last year I stitched Christmas stockings for TJ, Nathan and myself. A lady at church was nice enough to sew them for me, and they came out great. So, this year I needed to make Tate his stocking, and I got a rather late start in September. I should have known that it couldn't be that simple!

Since cross-stitching is a somewhat dying art, I had to go to Catonsville to find a store that exculsively sold cross-stitching supplies. I couldn't remember the name of the fabric I had used or the count number (which the lady explained to me is the number of squares per inch on the fabric), so I took along one of my stockings. The ladies at the Stitching Post are wonderful, and so helplful. I found out that my fabric was called Fiddlers Lite and that I needed 14 count, which they happened to be out of, so I needed to special order it. Just my luck, it took over 3 weeks for it to come in.

Once it did, I almost immediately started stitching, and as of today I was so proud of myself because I was almost done. Well, today I took Nathan's stocking out because I needed to remember how I had done something one his, and I noticed that the design on Tate's was half the size of Nathan's. DARN! I realized that I should have doubled the size of the stitches (known as 2 over 2). So, I decide to save the one that's almost done to finish and frame later, get a new piece of fabric out and get started. After a few minutes I realize that the design this time is going to be too big. DARN! Needless to say at this point I'm pretty upset. After a lot of comparison I realize that what I really should have ordered was 18 count fabric. As I don't have time for another trip to Catonsville this week, I went online and ordered the correct fabric, which takes 1-2 weeks for shipping!!!!! If Tate gets a stocking this year that matches the rest of ours it will be a miracle!





Here's a pic of our stockings from last year.